Interesting Sacrificial Scene

250, Lot: 221. Estimate $100. Sold for $230. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TROAS, Ilium. Faustina Junior. Augusta, AD 147-175. Æ (24mm, 9.20 g, 12h). Draped bust right / Statue of Athena Ilias right on garlanded altar, before her a cow suspended in a tree being slaughtered by a man grasping its horns. Bellinger T166; SNG München 248. Fine, dark green patina. Interesting.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.